DOT waking your co-driver

If they can legally wake you in the middle of your 10 off (as a solo driver) I dont see the difference really. But I dont know for sure.

 

Legally, I don't know. Do they do it? All the time. Usually they just make them stick an arm out from behind the curtain to make sure there really is a co-driver in the truck. This is to make sure the log books aren't faked using a co-driver when there isn't one there at all.

 

Why couldn't they.

If they only spent 3 minutes with you,

flag it !!

 

They legally can, ALL time has to be marked on line 4. If it takes long enough and is in the right spot this can totally mess up legal log books.

 

In all my years of driving I have only had CHP wake me once, and I might add it was my own fault for parking in the center divider thinking I was on the shoulder. Central Valley fog, I was happy to be completely out of the lane, He let me stay parked was just checking my well being as the officer put it.

When the fog lifted I moved.

 

When we would go thru the border checks in el paso, and in parts of nm they would always make my co driver stick his head out of the sleeper and ask if he was an american citizen..

 

back in my earlier years i was co-driving and i was in the sleeper. the DOT officer wanted proof that the driver at the time did indeed have a co-driver and he (the DOT officer) opened up the curtains, looked inside, saw me sleeping and that was that. this was told to me by my co-driver.

so to answer YOUR question, i was never awakened. BUT he (or she) may want to "verify" that there IS a co-driver......

after all, the sleeping co-driver is NOT in control of the truck at the time.

 

I had always dropped off my co-driver 2 hours prior !!!!!























yeah right !!!!!!!!!